The Cecil Whig., 1887-03-05
An impeachment to the Higher Education of

An impeachment to the Higher Education of
Sui tstantial progress has been made
during the last few years in the cause OF
female education. The favor with intelli-
gent public opinion has regarded an ex-
tension to women OF all the educational
advantages enjoye by the other sex has
spread so widely that it can almost be
callt d unanimous. Those cantaukerous
Old tcgies who affected to believe that
"womeu's mission as they called it.
was to mind babies aud run the kitchen
have long since disappeared. Only occa
sionally do we find specimen OF that
silly class of objectors who think that
women are designed only to look pretty
and chatter amiably and who don't think
they require any Homer or Euclid in order
develop such accomplishments. The secu-
| lar business of life is rational enjoyment
of ones powers and faculties. Education
is merely an essential means to this end,
and who is there to deny that women
its mol Ter pleasures as men?
| Aud yet the practical establishment OF
this reform has not been general. care
| ful statistician reports that there are i'll
America l sol institutions devoted to
higher education. Attending these arr
| 1863 $40 young meE and but 80, 5S1 women.
! These figures are very unsatisfactory to
| tie advocates Of the reform. To be sure,
| a large measure of encouragement is af
forded by the gradual removal of OBJ
stacles in the way of sending young wo-
men to college. In every civilized country
| notable strides have been made in the
extension to them of firstclass advantages.
Colleges devoted purely to female eduea
ton are rapidly increasing and are tinan
cially well supported The German uni
versities are generally open TO them. In
France the reform has received such an
impetus that even agricultural and me
chanical schools for girls have been re
Gently started. A magnificent female
university at Moscow has been arranged
for and will soon be built, while here in
America young women are accorded ex-
coptional facilities.
There must be some other reason for the
dispr"portion i'll the number OF male and
female students than can be charged to a
lack of opportunity for girls, and We
think it is to be found in a certain do
mestic predjudice that exists against
sending them away from home. AS
rule parents, and mothers especially, are
reluctant enough about sending their boys
away. That contingency, however they
have prepared themselves for. They have
accepted it as inevitable, but the idea OF
parting with a daughter just when she is
bossoming into womenhood is extremely
unwelcome. Reason may say that it is for
the best. The cold theory of ushering her
into social life accomplished and well-in-
formed may seem wise and desirable, but
experience shows that objections on her
part are listened to with an acquiescent
spirit. The girls who go to college are
1t will bs necessary for those who desire
to see tho higher education of women
commonly accepted fact to turn their
batteries against this sentiment. 1t will
be hard to deal with. 1t proceeds from
An affection with whiah all humanity
sympathizes. The time must come when
parents will be ashamed to give their sons
better educational opportunities than
they give their daughters. In 1880 the
census showed that l54 375 of our 22S TO
school-teachers were women. This tart
ling fact is of itself loud demand for
the general extension of the reform. No
one Influence is mole powerful i'll shaping
our National destiny than that of persons
who are shaping the minds and charac
ters of those who make it. In these days
Of progress the best mental training that,
in the nature of things, is possible, is
young women's right. 1t should be
given her as a matter of course, and as
freely as the clothes she wears ". Y.
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